The draw is today (Thursday) at 5pm which is a silly time as I am going to be travelling home and will miss it. For the first time Spurs will be included within the draw and I'm sure they and their fans are eagerly awaiting to see who they get. For most clubs out side of the Third pot I would think Spurs or Schalke will be the 2 teams which the seeds will most like to avoid, that's not to say the other clubs are weak, because they aren't. It is just that I believe them 2 to be the strongest.

For the top seeds the worst possible draw would likely include Real Madrid from pot 2, spurs/Schalke from pot 3 and FC Twnte or Auxerre from pot four. I have to say there are several clubs I know very little about, especially in pot 4. As a Manchester united fan I would like the following group

• Panathinaikos (its my view they are the weakest of the second seeds)

• Rangers, Basle or FC Copenhagen (probably the 3 weakest third seeds and not a long flight)

• MSK Zilina (Slovakian Champions so not far to travel)

The full list of teams pots are:

Pots for Uefa Champions League draw:

Pot one: Inter Milan, Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Lyon.

Pot two: Werder Bremen, Real Madrid, Roma, Shakhtar Donetsk, Benfica, Valencia, Marseille, Panathinaikos.

Pot three: Tottenham, Rangers, Ajax, Schalke, Basle, Braga, FC Copenhagen, Spartak Moscow.

Pot four: Hapoel Tel Aviv, FC Twente, Rubin Kazan, Auxerre, CFR Cluj, Partizan Belgrade, MSK Zilina, Bursaspor.

By Steve Jarvis